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Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

109. Coca-Colonization Pt. 1!

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8724 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Summary

This week, Madeline and David talk about Coca Cola's colonization of Mexico, part 1 of a 2-parter!


BOOK: 

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722726/i-survived-capitalism-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt-by-madeline-pendleton/ 


PATREON: 

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared 


SOURCES: 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coca-cola-mexico-wells-dry-bottled-water-sucking-san-felipe-ecatepec-chiapas-a7953026.html

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/15/coca-cola-country-in-southern-mexico-photo-essay

https://www.indigenousmexico.org/articles/chiapas-forever-indigenous?format=amp

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jul/28/water-is-the-real-thing-but-millions-of-mexicans-are-struggling-without-it

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/15/coca-cola-country-in-southern-mexico-photo-essay

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/14/world/americas/mexico-coca-cola-diabetes.html

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a22172862/coca-cola-mexico-town-water/

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL5N2XF4ZG/

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/article/this-small-town-in-mexico-is-addicted-to-coca-cola-it-also-grapples-with-a-deadly-disease/p1m2g5dtd

https://truthout.org/articles/coca-cola-sucks-wells-dry-in-chiapas-forcing-residents-to-buy-water/

https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/major-cities-in-mexico-running-out-of-water-as-extreme-heat-continues-209737285844

https://coha.org/coca-colas-corporate-greed-is-leaving-mexicans-thirsty/

https://borgenproject.org/chronic-diseases-in-chiapas/

https://killercoke.org/ray_rogers_absurdity_at_unam_110329.php

https://killercoke.org/crimes_mexico.php

https://inthesetimes.com/article/cola-wars-in-mexico

https://chiapas-support.org/2023/06/14/coca-colas-lack-of-political-transparency-is-associated-with-life-and-death-in-chiapas/

https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/cocacolonization/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953604004587?via%3Dihub

https://compact.org/news/coca-colonization-and-christmas-cheer-in-mexico

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953604004587

https://www.salon.com/2018/04/04/the-coca-cola-invasion-is-causing-mexicos-slow-death-by-junk-food_partner/

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2017/12/23/coca-cola-red-and-whitewashing-the-empire

https://www.businessinsider.com/coca-cola-influence-on-mexican-culture-2018-8#but-there-was-a-downside-to-cokes-sudden-spike-in-popularity-the-diabetes-rate-doubled-in-mexico-between-2000-and-2007-14

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast.

0:27.8

I'm your host Madeline. And I'm your co-host, David.

0:30.4

Uh, welcome to the show, everybody.

0:35.0

Hey, it's, uh, the first time we've been in the same room in a little bit.

0:39.1

That's true. I feel like this, this setup is the best audio quality set. It's when I, you know, every time, so for those listening at home who are not in the room with us,

0:45.1

for everybody in the world that's not you and me. Usually I sit across from you on this weird,

0:52.0

uh, orange thing.

0:54.6

Kind of brought that bench.

0:56.1

That bench is deeply uncomfortable.

0:57.8

It is deeply uncomfortable.

0:58.9

It's true, but it's so cute.

1:00.0

It's very cute.

1:01.0

This is, do you remember the chair in your old house that hung from the ceiling?

1:06.0

Oh, I was thinking of the barrel-shaped rocking chair that was really uncomfortable, but so cute.

1:10.2

That's what I. Did that not

1:11.2

hang from the ceiling? No, those were two different chairs. Both of those chairs, deeply uncomfortable.

1:16.4

Okay, the hanging chair was very comfortable. That, no. I loved that chair. You're wrong about that

1:22.5

one, but you're right about the barrel chair. You have a thing for very deeply uncomfortable furniture that is also very cute.

1:30.3

That might be true. The thing I did like about the barrel chair though, which for those of you who cannot picture this, it's a barrel that somebody's attached rocking chair legs to?

1:42.3

It's like someone cut a chair

1:44.3

into a barrel. Yes, that's more it.

1:46.2

Yes, so it's like you're sitting on a cut

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